When judges abused power, ignored law, and ruled based on political interests, nobody won. The lawless rulings by Thurston County Superior Court and Washington State Supreme Court on the I-1000 lawsuit have prolong consequences for years to come: The Secretary of State did not comply with WAC 434-379-010. The sample she drew did not represent… Read More »
I-1000, an Initiative to the Legislature to repeal I-200, submitted 350K signatures on Friday, January 4th, 2019. Governor Jay Inslee immediately issued a statement and placed passing I-1000 by the Legislature on high priority in the upcoming session. The upcoming fight against I-1000 and for I-200 will be a tough one. We need all the… Read More »
Initiative 1000 (I-1000) is misleading voters in order to gather enough signatures to repeal Washington State Civil Rights Initiative (I-200) . The people and organizations behind I-1000 are the same ones behind the failed I-1644 . Outspent by 3 to 1, I-200 won nearly 59% of votes 20 years ago. It won in 38 of… Read More »
Why we opposite I-1000 America is an immigrant country which means multi-ethnic state and there are often got contempt/discriminate problems. The government has established many regulations as a guidance to minimize the issue however is still often inevitable in our daily lives. One of the reason is that some regulations use ethnic distribution so for sure it create… Read More »
Get the pdf file: I-1000 Flyer.
To the Members of the Washington State Legislature: We, WA Asians for Equality and American Coalition for Equality, strongly believe and support equal opportunity for all, and oppose I-1000, which will bring back different rules for different races. In a recent letter to WA State legislature, APACE claims “This group (WA Asians for Equality) does not… Read More »
Despite clear evidence to the contrary, former Managing Assistant AG and current Thurston County Superior Court Judge, Chris Lanese, hastily sided with the Secretary of State, and granted the SoS’s Motion for Summary Judgment, dismissed the case questioning I-1000 validity. “This is clearly a political move and we have filed an appeal to the State… Read More »
Following is a letter regarding the status of petition circulators regarding I-1000. It was posted on Facebook by Mark Jacoby from Let the Voters Decide petition company. “Open letter to all I-1000 petition circulators: To those of you who were worked in Washington State on the I-1000 initiative, in freezing temperatures during the holidays and… Read More »
“When we learned that the SoS (Secretary of State) did not resample when they removed additional petition sheets, we knew they did not follow proper procedure.” Said Mr. Kan Qiu, who, along with two other plaintiffs, filed a lawsuit challenging the SoS’s decision to certify I-1000 in February. “The SoS may sample as few as… Read More »
A lawsuit challenging the certification of Initiative 1000 has been filed in Thurston County Superior Court by Kan Qiu, president of American Coalition for Equality (ACE), and two other members of the organization. Initiative I-1000 intends to bring back race based discrimination which has been banned since 1998 when nearly 59% of voters in Washington… Read More »
Secretary of State’s (SOS) decision to accept the 216 sheets of I-1000 petition that covered up by stickers set a very bad precedent for future initiatives. We asked Assistant Secretary of State, Mark Neary, if SOS could prove that the more than 4,000 signatures were collected AFTER the stickers were glued on. He said NO.… Read More »
The Secretary of State (SOS) issued a Media Advisory today, rejected only 61 I-1000 petition sheets. This number was much lower than what our whistleblower informed us. We contacted SOS, and were given the following run down. And yes, you are reading the table correctly, I-1644 texts are on those I-1000 petition sheets. As the… Read More »